Rudy Rucker is a well-known science-fiction writer who enjoys painting surreal Pop SF scenes that are often related to incidents in his books. His favorite artists include Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch, Rene Magritte, Wayne Thiebaud, R. Crumb and Carl Barks.
Born in Kentucky in 1946, he studied mathematics, earning a Ph. D. in the theory of infinite sets. He worked first as mathematics professor, then as a computer science professor, coming to rest in Silicon Valley, where he now writes SF full time.
Rucker has published 30 books, mostly SF novels. A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker often writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism.
Rucker took up painting in 1999 while doing research for his novel about the life of Peter Bruegel, As Above, So Below. Now he often paints pictures as a way of imaginging the worlds of his novels such as The Hacker and Ants, The Hollow Earth, Frek and the Elixir and Mathematicians in Love.
As well as writing and painting, Rucker spends an inordinate amount of time working on his photo-illustrated blog, www.rudyrucker.com/blog.
On May 10, 2008, Rudy uploaded a number of new images. amd increased the quality (number of pixels and color clarity) in some of the images already present.
Note that some of the gallery pictures are also for sale as originals; see the Rudy's Paintings page on his home site for more information.